Excerpt from Methods of Wholesale Distribution of Fruits and Vegetables on Large MarketsThe development of transportation facilities and the extension of our agricultural area have widened the distance between producer and consumer. This is as true commercially as it is physically. This condition has brought with it many difficulties, and the serv10es of specialists have been required to accomplish the distribution of large crops over wide areas. Certain channels of trade have been created and there are numerous avenues through which the farmer may reach the consumer. Few of these avenues are direct. The movement of farm products from producer to consumer appears to both to proceed in most cases along circuitous and devious ways.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.